[afnog] Re: Request for input: The Working Group onInternetGovernance

[Phil Regnauld]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:01:53AM +0000, Brian Candler wrote:
> Like it or not, in the eyes of the Internet industry, the ITU *represents*
> everything bad about the telco world. It comprises those organisations who
> would have cheerfully strangled the Internet at birth, if they had actually
> noticed it in time.

	Oh they did in France.  In 1972, Louis Pouzin (teaches at national
	telecom school in Paris) developed Cyclades -- Vint Cerf can tell
	you about it.  It was connecting ~20 nodes around 1975, using
	packets instead of circuits.

	http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/think/Cyclades/index.shtml

	In 1978, funding was choked and Transpac (X.25) was launched.